A Few of My Favorite Things...

At the rehearsal dinner a few weeks back, I met with the most divine mushroom soup I've ever tasted. Ever since, the only things I've cooked in my kitchen have been attempts to copy that elusive soup... with Portobellos, with Chanterelles, with White Button mushrooms, even leeks... but nothing made a soup so mysteriously rich and creamy as the "creamless" mushroom soup I had there. I did finally remember that the description on the menu promoted asparagus as a key ingredient, so I finally added that, but the result was, well, stringier than I'd hoped. And of course, my poor little Cuisinart has a tendency to leak when the liquid content starts to outweigh the solid, and the whole thing basically exploded on me in the kitchen. So there I was, mushroom-covered kitchen, broth and stringy asparagus leaking down the sides of the (new) countertops, Jason heroically trying to catch the drips... I was a shade of blue away from turning into Bridget Jones! Needless to say, I still haven't found my perfect, smooth creamless mushroom soup... but something tells me maybe I need better tools!